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Originally Posted by DoubleK
It's criminal Alberta has not started the process of building a line to Site C. That project is a 2025 ISD. An HVDC link is about 10 years development start to finish. That line would be about 600 km and cost $3.5B for 2,000MW.
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Absolutely. We need to stop thinking of the grid in terms of provincial silos.
Unfortunately, neither BC nor Alberta are even considering it. Seems there were talks under the NDP but nowadays that seems to dead.
Here's a pod where Markham Hislop talks to one of the BC Hydro folks about Site C and they're like "nope, intertie with AB is not even on the radar for either province."
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts...d-_-ka5NptAor/